Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here at this moment to celebrate a birthday. And it's not just ANY birthday, mind you - it's the birthday of a legend. For twenty years ago, some engineers got together and produced a revolutionary new machine. These days, only a small percentage of the population uses the descendants of that machine, but those who do realize its greatness, and the potential that it held when it was born.
I'm writing this on one right now. This computer, a Power Mac 8500, is nearly nine years old - ancient by computer standards - but with some added RAM, a slightly larger hard drive and an upgraded processor, it runs Internet, productivity and design applications with surprising speed. Add in a SCSI CD burner that zips along nicely without crashing, and you've got yourself a pretty handy little machine. Hell, it'll even let me crank up the mp3s while web-surfing and the audio never stops, unlike my skip-a-riffic Windows machine.
So, yeah, yay Macintosh. Perhaps in the future I'll have the means to get one of the new titanium G5s linked above. Yowza...